thats what im talkin about :jizz:
I totally support that. Really, you guys should be glad about that. It would be a nice way of saying “hey wired, thanks, but the mod wasn’t announced for this year” and telling the rest of the internet “we are here so fuck off”. :freeman:
The great thing about being put on Wired’s vaporware roundup is that the list has a pretty good history of predicting next year releases. Look at some of the past products:
Mac OSX - 2000
Black and White - 2000
Team Fortress 2 - 2005
Spore - 2006
StarCraft 2 - 2009
I’m sure you could get away with it, half life was meant to be remade with awesome graphics.
I was gonna say…
Now aim for the numero 1 spot in the Vaporware 2011 list! Im pretty sure that BM can make it if they try real hard!
Any chance there will be a BMS Trailer 2? There has probably been a ton of new content added and old stuff updated/improved since the last trailer.
Maybe u can make a gameplay trailer or a deathmatch trailer?
Just a suggestion.
It has been suggested a thousand times and it has been rejected a thousand times. No new trailer. It’s just a waste of time.
The official soundtrack is the only thing getting released before Black Mesa itself at this point.
Wut. raw_bean said once, that the soundtrack won’t be released until the mod is released.
You may be mistaken as to what Raw_Bean said, cuz as far as I know (and I verified this not too long ago) is that the soundtrack will be made available shortly BEFORE the release of the mod.
released and on my phone so i can listen too and get excited about, at work 
where’s Raw_Bean by the way? I haven’t seen him in a while…
Vaporware first implied intentional fraud when it was applied to the Ovation office suite in 1983; the suite’s demonstration was well-received by the press, but was later revealed to have never existed.
The dev team can’t take such heinous allegations lying down!
Stick it to those snooty wired-y guys in their ivory tower and release BM by February!
…please?
Yeah, well, we’ll see if BM makes it on the 2011 list. I’m cautiously optimistic but with every year that optimism fades a bit. There’s no doubt that Black Mesa is gradually losing the confidence of the fans. In my opinion this incredible secrecy is to blame.
There are supposedly internal deadlines. If the devs were fairly confident that they could be met, why keep them top-secret? It suggests that either A: the team has absolutely no realistic timeframe for when this thing will ever get out, AKA development hell, or B: The release is so far away that all these statements of “almost done” or “near future” would be exposed as completely wrong. Rightly or wrongly, it makes it look like they have something embarrassing they’re trying to hide.
I also reject this idea that it doesn’t matter when BM is released. Video games age, and eventually the “completed” work will become so outdated that it needs to be redone. Unless you can break out of that DNF-type cycle you end up either shipping an obsolete product or never shipping a product at all.
If it can happen to 3DRealms, it can happen to a mod team, no matter how dedicated and talented. And that is my biggest fear regarding Black Mesa.
If the devs could just make a statement explaining what’s been going on, what the current status is, and how they see things going from here, I think it would do a lot to reassure folks. This current policy of secrecy and telling people to quit whining just isn’t working.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA… This is almost vindication for the ridiculous MOTY accolades that BM took I think in 2007 when it’s obvious it wasn’t even but barely started. How the hell can a freakin mod win MOTY when there isn’t even a mod out there to see? Anyway, #1 would have been a bit more deserving, since we are now pushing 14 months since the original promised release date.
Peace, Defender
Grape, you’ve hit the proverbial nail right on the head, buddy.
At the moment I think the sole reason for the silent approach is due to that they are to far into the development. It’s simply not worth it to make another media release or a current status report anymore, as the mod soon propably will be released.
Sure, it could very well indeed be out in just a few months, and all the worriers would look silly. That’d be great. But this “soon” thing and the accompanying rationale for no update on the situation, have been going on for a while now. Like, a year. Which to me personally, isn’t what I consider “soon”.
Most games are “TBA” when they start, then narrow down to a year or quarter, then comes a specific date. It’s part of the natural process.
But when someone says “almost done, real soon”, but can’t/won’t give you even the vaguest of release estimates or development updates, and a long time goes by in this same state it inspires doubt and uncertainty.
I don’t see how you could expect otherwise, and that’s why almost no developer does things that way.